Author: Dane Huffman

Posted in N.C. State

N.C. State’s Woodson continues dazzling start

The spectacular start to Randy Woodson’s tenure as chancellor continued Friday when the Wolfpack named Debbie Yow its new athletics director. Yow, who had been at…

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Barakat brought dedication, patience to ACC

Fred Barakat died Monday of a heart attack in Greensboro, and if you’ve followed the ACC for years, you have a sense of who he was…

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Breaking down Duke’s fouls from 2010 season

A great site for sports fans is Statsheet.com, run by Robbie Allen. On the site, you can break down all sorts of stats from sports and…

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No boost on African soil

Given the build-up to the World Cup coming to the African continent for the first time, you would have expected the African teams to have success….

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Great chapter on the link between Bobby Frasor, Erin Andrews

Dan Wiederer of The Fayetteville Observer is one of the best young reporters on ACC basketball and just did a book, “Blue Streak,” on UNC’s championship…

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ESPN misses the mark on Big 12

The big story in college sports in recent days has been expansion, and ESPN clearly missed on this one Monday. The WWL’s Joe Schad reported that…

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The goal is to score, right?

Capital Sports colleague Cliff Barnes touched on this in his comment about Brian Abernethy’s blog entry, but it bears repeating. If the score in most World…

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World Cup: America’s team reflects America’s attitude

Brian Abernethy is blogging on the World Cup for the Capital Sports Report Rising from relative obscurity to the international soccer limelight in just a few…

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